Found August 06, 2008 on Larry Brown Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Josh Childress
TEAMS: Miami Heat

There's been a ton of crazy stuff going on lately with basketball players going European. We had Brandon Jennings spurn Arizona for Europe, Josh Childress go Greek, LeBron say he'd consider Europe, and Kobe say the same thing. We also have seen several foreign NBA players return to Europe this off-season where they're [...]
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  • Didn't go to MD cause he didn't want to play on the Sabbath. Try they took back the scholarship offer because the Jewish Jordan was only Jordan like against kids who were about as good as one legged retarded monkeys. He barely played at Towson.
  • wj - he did play competently in the Israeli league for a few years before his injury and service in the military, which at least suggests that he could have been a viable backup at MD deserving of the scholarship. Schools don't rescind scholarships because they have revelations about a person's lack of talent.

    Obviously the "JJ" nickname was ridiculous, but try to remember that you don't have to be that great to be the Jewish Jordan.
  • true. but when he was supposed to be going to MD it was never an official offer. It was a verbal commitment by Goodman. And at the time there were several articles in the papers in the DC area talking about how MD was working to change their schedule. It always seemed to me that the Sabbath thing was a convenient way for both sides to save face-though i could be wrong.

    i was going to school in the area then and we played a tournament where he was,in the midst of all the hype and he just wasn't that good. he could shoot the lights out but beyond that he was never anything special. His performance at Towson really showed his lack of big time school potential.

    Of course none of this means that he can't have gotten much better overseas and might be a decent or even good player now.
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